About Artworks
In 1999, the Clore Duffield
Foundation initiated and began to fund Artworks - a three-part programme of activities supporting visual
arts education in the UK.
The overall aim of the programme was threefold:
- To motivate and support teachers to develop ambitious and inventive teaching in art & design
- To increase opportunities for children and young people to be inspired and challenged through engaging with, and learning about, art & design
- To endorse the role that galleries and artists can play in high-quality art & design education
To achieve this aim, the programme was devised to comprise three 'strands': the Artworks
Awards scheme; Children's Art
Day; and Artworks research projects.
Please follow the relevant link(s) for further details.
As stated on the Homepage and elsewhere on this website, throughout most of 2005-2006
the Artworks programme was under review - especially the Awards element - while a number of options for the
scheme's further growth and development were explored following the cessation of the Foundation's five-year
funding.
We are now pleased to announce the results of that review:
Artworks: Young Artists of the Year Awards: It is now hoped that Artworks: Young Artists of the Year
Awards will be re-launched in a fresh new format - this time organised and run by Tate. More information will
be made available shortly.
Children's Art Day 2007: In 2006 the national programme of events was run by
engage, with funding from the Clore Duffield Foundation;
the Office of the Mayor of London organised a major event in Trafalgar Square. It is hoped that the Day will
take place again in June/July 2007. Follow this link for further information;
further updates will be made available soon.
Research: check the relevant section of this website for details of research into key issues relating
to art & design education. During the period 1999 to 2004, this research was used to lobby for better support
and provision for the visual arts in schools, galleries and museums.
Do check this site to keep up-to-date on developments and for information on art & design opportunities for teachers and schools. In the meantime, we hope you will send us your comments on the project to date, and your suggestions for possible plans/improvements in the future, by email to:
artworks@cloreduffield.org.uk
Many thanks for your continued support for, and involvement in, Artworks.
